mitch
Britishverb
Etymology
Origin of mitch
C13: probably from Old French muchier, mucier to hide, lurk
Example Sentences
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It was amazing, And she will be sadly missed. — mitch kolpan Add your comments...
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2010
He answered in his vulgar accent, “It wouldn’t do mitch hurt if it did;” and surveyed its legs with a smile.
From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Davy jumped on deck, took a lantern, and fixed it to the top of the mitch board.
From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine
On arriving there, however, a little herd-boy, despatched as a messenger, told us that,—‘Maister Linton wer just o’ this side th’ Heights: and he’d be mitch obleeged to us to gang on a bit further.’
From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
"Ey'n neaw dun mitch to boast on i' leatherin' them two seawr-feaced rapscallions," said Bess, with becoming modesty.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
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